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2012-02-05 Africa North

Egypt to try 43 NGO workers, including 19 Americans, over funds

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Posted by 2012-02-05 12:12|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 While everyone was "passing the popcorn" while the Obama/Clinton backed hounds were chasing down Mubarack, knew the next major target would be Americans. Welcome to Somalia II.

Posted by wr 2012-02-05 12:53|| 2012-02-05 12:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Why can't I get the idea out of my head that this is red on red?

NGOs always strike me as the worst kind of non-accountable, elitist bureaucrats.

Posted by AlanC 2012-02-05 13:05|| 2012-02-05 13:05|| Front Page Top

#3 This is the leftist ~~mentality~~ delusion: "That rattlesnake / scorpion / black widow has every bit as much right to the crib as the baby..."

Yeah...

Posted by M. Murcek 2012-02-05 13:31|| 2012-02-05 13:31|| Front Page Top

#4 While everyone was "passing the popcorn" while the Obama/Clinton backed hounds were chasing down Mubarack

Aside from wondering if I'd read a more awkwardly-written sentence this year or not - no one "chased down" Mubarak. The Obama administration took the cheapest (on many levels) and most expedient option in favor of their interests. They didn't go much beyond that. Mubarak may be gone, but his backers are still in power.

You have seem to have this "passing the popcorn" thing jammed in your... fore-brain, and it appears to be causing you a great deal of discomfort. Especially since it seems to appear out of context. You might want to see a professional. Or try another phrase expressing your dissatisfaction.

knew the next major target would be Americans.

"Major target"? Hardly. More like a diplomatic rattle-around. The Egyptian junta will try them, then deport them. The message will have been sent.

Welcome to Somalia II.

Again - hardly. Spend some of your energy used polishing your indignancy instead on researching recent (post monarchy) Egyptian history, or perusing the blogs of Egyptians like Sandmonkey. It's a bit more more complex than "Somalia".

Posted by Pappy 2012-02-05 13:41|| 2012-02-05 13:41|| Front Page Top

#5 NGOs always strike me as the worst kind of non-accountable, elitist bureaucrats

Because NGOs are often headed by them.

Much of what the two current American NGOs in Egypt are doing, was done up until forty years by US intelligence agencies. Since the 'reforms', it went to non-governmetal bodies, each loosely aligned with the center-left factions of both US political parties. And as g(r)omgoru put it, a "finishing school" staffed by the offspring of elites in order to get international exposure.

I don't think facing trial was in the curriculum, though.

Posted by Pappy 2012-02-05 13:47|| 2012-02-05 13:47|| Front Page Top

#6
I don't think facing trial was in the curriculum, though.

The most valuable lessons seldom are...

Posted by M. Murcek 2012-02-05 13:51|| 2012-02-05 13:51|| Front Page Top

#7 "Egypt to try 43 NGO workers, including 19 Americans, over funds"

Translation: They didn't fork over enough boodle to the present powers-that-be.

Posted by Barbara 2012-02-05 14:21|| 2012-02-05 14:21|| Front Page Top

#8 Where can I donate to the prosecution?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2012-02-05 14:49|| 2012-02-05 14:49|| Front Page Top

#9
(i) Somebody has delusions of grandeur.
(ii) Somebody figured Obama out.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2012-02-05 14:55|| 2012-02-05 14:55|| Front Page Top

#10 Somebody figured Obama out

You mean besides the Chinese, Egyptians, French, Georgians, Italians, Japanese, Pakistanis, Russians, Syrians, Talibanis, and the Turks?

Posted by Pappy 2012-02-05 18:50|| 2012-02-05 18:50|| Front Page Top

#11 What does the Egyptian military want in exchange for these ~~high value hostages~~ NGO workers?

More money, the Blind Sheikh, or something/someone else?

By deporting these foreigners and closing down the NGOs they would have rid Egypt of these "foreign hands", sent a message and they would have avoided the danger of a serious confrontation with the West.

This looks like they're deliberately throwing down the gauntlet.

Posted by Harcourt Hitler3209 2012-02-05 19:18|| 2012-02-05 19:18|| Front Page Top

#12 if its illegal for persons in Egypt to receive foreign funds, doesn't that makes all of our aid to Egypt illegal

Posted by Lord Garth 2012-02-05 19:29|| 2012-02-05 19:29|| Front Page Top

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